Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-15
LnEPs1o OoNsRRvAToRY

Gewandhaus-GrandR Roads for Ricy.
 cling, Especially the Saxon-Blcycle
 Trips to Dresden and Prague-Cllmb-
 ing Mountains-Ehe Splendid BIcy.
 cling Road From Dresden to LeIpsic l
 -SeVenty.TwO Miles i'm Eight Hours |
 Notes by a Young New Havener in |
 LelPsic.
 LE1PsIc, June 27.-Thinking that it might | interest some of your many readers, will | give you a short sketch of my first year in | Leipsic and other places in Germany that I l have visited. |
 The conservatory here is, in my opinion, | the best there is in Germany, taking all things into consideration. The piano, or gan, harmony, violin and cello are especially fine.
 I have made number of enquiries in re- gard to other conservatories in Germany, but find in nearly all cases that the Leipsic con- seryatory is regarded the best.
 Next September the new conservatory is to
 be opened and I judge,by the remarks have
 heard from time to time in reference to it, that it will be very fine. The hall where the ahendunterhaltnngs are held is also to be furnished similar to that of the new Gewand- haus and will also have in addition an organ which will be an improvement on the hall ID the ola ''COn." as that mas no organ III It, The new Gewandhaus is @ beautiful build ing. In the eastern end of the building is a large reception hall, then comes the large concert hall, capable of holding 2,000 per sons. At the western end of the building IS the small 'schamber concert" hall The large hall is furnished with large organ and d1- rectly under is the orchestra platform. The whole building is lit by electricity.
 We have heard in the new Gewandhaus this past year twenty-two symphonic con-
 certs. Among the principal artists we have heard ill these concerts are Rubinstein, Won
 Bulow, Joachim, Plante (from Paris), Sarasa- te, d'Albert, Mrs. Clara Schumann and Mrs. Wilma NormanANernda We have also heard ten chamber concerts in the small hall.
 The new theater is also very fine build ing. It is open every night througnouG no I the there. All of Wagner's operas are at present being played there. On the 11th of June the
 Con" had their annual excursion They l went to Colditz, small town about twenty l five miles from here. The day was passed in | walking, dancing, speeches, etc, and we had very pleasant time. MT. Haines and l myself rode on our bicyles there, as we enjoy that kind of riding immensely.
 The roads here are grand for bicycling, especially the Saxon roads. think if some of our New Haven riders once rode on some of these roads they would want to live on their machines. The first trip took was to Dresden in company with MT. Haines and a Mir. Frederick; also another American. The | day we started we had a very heavy wind direct in our faces and we only got to Meissen at eight in the evening. When we reached Meissen it was little dark and just as we entered the gate of Meissen our friend Mr. Frederick took "header" in elegant style (without practicing it) As he picking himself up old German passing stopped and said, E'That's right; break every bone in 1NCE1y A hoT GiH Y10I1n Of he coming to Meissen runs beside the river Elbe and from there until we reached Dresden the scenery was grand. In the next vacation (Whitsuntide) MT. Frederick, a German named Katzenstein and myself took trip to Prague We left Leipsic Geipzig in Ger man) at Il 80 a. m. and arrived in Chemnitz at p. m. The next day we started out and the first thing we had to do was to climb very high mountain and then go down and up another and then down, and
 that's the way we went the whole day. We climbed the highest mountain in Saxony- the Erzgebirge. When we arrived at the summit we rode little further and were then in Austria and in the highest village in Austria, Gottesgab, $500 feet above the sea. It was quite cool there. We saw snow on the mountain and in the tavern where we
 had coffee they had fires built. Then we
 commenced the descent into Joachimsthal,
 where we spent the night. The next morn ing we rode to Carlsbad and spent the day
 and night there. The next morning we
 started off and got as far as New Straschitz,
 where we spent the night. In the villages
 we passed through between Carlsbad
 and Straschitz we seemed to
 be curiosity. In every will
 lage we struck we would have the whole population turn out and about fifty ''kids" run after us. The next morning we started for Prague and the road was simply "rank;" we spent two days in Prague and left there on an afternoon and got about fifteen miles out and we found the read so lad that we rode over to Kralut and took the train up to Theresienstadt. The next day we visited Leitmeritz and left there in the afternoon and had to climb mountain the first thing.
 Then we commenced the descent into the
 valley of the Elbe-it took us one hour and quarter and we began to think we were going somewhere else than the valley of the Elbe. Some parts of the road were so steep that it was impossible to ride. That night
 we arrived in Tetschen. The next
 morning was Saturday and bad
 luck would have it it was raining, and as we
 had to be in Leipsic Sunday we took the boat
 to Pirna and from there we came by train to
 Leipsic and therefore lost the best ride of the
 whole trip-Dresden to Leipsic. That is un-
 doubtedly the best road here. The road is nearly as good as race track and we gene rally take about eight hours to make the p miles in. We have number of excellent short rides here also. have visited Borna, 16 miles from here, Givenna IS miles, War; zen IT miles, Halle 9 miles and Altenberg 29 miles and have found them all very pretty places and we'll worth visiting. R.